Prestigious, peer-reviewed scientific journals and major scientific organizations, such as the American Psychological Association, stand as guards at the gates of Science. They decide what information becomes part of the main body of widely accepted modern science. These guards often look with antipathy upon supplicants from parapsychology. Parapsychology studies take seriously evidence of anomalous phenomena, such as […]

Meditation is becoming more common in the West. When Transcendental Meditation gained popularity in the ’60s and ’70s, it was still a little “out there” for mainstream America. But nowadays even many hospitals offer meditation as a treatment option for some patients, because the research shows it is beneficial. But the long tradition of meditation […]

People who spoke of thoughts influencing a person’s health were once ridiculed. But the discovery of the placebo effect helped change that. Now it’s commonly accepted that some such connection and impact exists. When Guglielmo Marconi developed long-distance radio communication at the turn of the 20th century, he had to go to great lengths to prove […]

It seems the most difficult aspect of testing the power of human intention is controlling the intention of the scientists conducting the experiments. Here's a look at four studies on the power of human thoughts to affect water.

In quantum physics, one of the most enduring mysteries is known as the double-slit experiment, which renowned physicist Richard Feynman described as containing “the only mystery.” So what’s so mysterious about it? This requires a bit of setup: If you take a light-tight box, and inside shoot photons (basically units of light) through one slit […]